Genius Club.

Chapter 22 Virtual and Real
Lin Xian looked around and found a middle-aged man who was playing football with a child.

The man was wearing football shoes and a team jersey, so he must be a football fan. Lin Xian planned to try his luck.

"Hi."

Lin Xian walked forward and greeted him in a friendly manner:

"Brother, excuse me, do you know much about football matches? Especially the World Cup."

The man smiled crookedly and pointed at his jersey:
"Then you've found the right person! I've been watching football since I was a kid. Ever since I was old enough to understand, I've never missed a single game in the World Cup!"

"Ask me, little brother. Just ask whatever you want! No matter if you want to ask about players, games, or gossip, I can tell you everything!"

Not bad.

Reliable.

Is a passionate fan.

Lin Xian nodded and asked:

"Thank you, brother. Do you know who will be the champion of the 2022 Qatar World Cup? Is it Argentina?"

The middle-aged man was stunned for a moment and stared at Lin Xian unfriendly:

"You are just looking for trouble, little brother! How could I know about something that happened hundreds of years ago? You can't even find something this far away on the Internet!"

"Don't get excited, bro."

Lin Xian politely comforted:

"I'm writing a paper on this topic, so I need to know about some of the games that year. So if I want to find relevant records, where should I go?"

The middle-aged man shook his head:
"That thing is too hard to find, a game from over 600 years ago... If you really want to find it, go to the library."

After saying that, the middle-aged brother took the child away.

library……

Lin Xian looked up at the bright moon in the sky.

The library is definitely closed at this time. I need to look up some information today, and I can't rush in and attract the police or security guards, otherwise my tonight will be wasted.

But maybe I can try my luck in a bookstore?

Since the setting of the dream is 2624, the only way to find the result of a football match 600 years ago is to look in history books.

"bookstore……"

Lin Xian closed his eyes and recalled.

In the past twenty years, he has visited most places in the city. He naturally knows where the bookstores are located.

"I think there's one in Tianjie. When I passed by it at night before, it was still open very late."

After determining the target.

Lin Xian ran to the bus stop——

Bang!
"Ouch!"

Lin Xian, who was jogging, bumped into a fat man.

"Look at the way!"

The man was wearing a Rhine cat mask on his face and glared at Lin Xian fiercely.

"I know." Lin Xian answered casually.

I turned around and saw that it was indeed an acquaintance.

He smiled and patted the big-faced cat on the shoulder:

"You should also pay more attention to the back, so as not to get shot in the head every time."

"Gah!?"

The big-faced cat exclaimed! He turned around hastily! His right hand reached for his waist!

However... there was nothing behind him.

"Who the hell are you!"

The big-faced cat turned his head, only to find that Lin Xian had already run far away.

He rubbed his head, which was hurt by the collision, and looked around with worry on his face:

"Where is this cryptographer hiding? I can't find him..."

……

Lin Xian rarely takes the bus in his dreams.

In the past, when he went to far away places, he would just steal a car and play it as if it were Asphalt.

But that basically starts "escape mode", and soon a police car will come to chase him, and in the end he will either be arrested or shot dead for hitting too many people.

He had business to do today and didn't want to get into trouble.

The bookstore was indeed far away. It took me a full hour and a half on the bus to reach my destination.

Lin Xian walked into the bookstore.

The clerk rolled his eyes at him and continued playing with his phone.

It didn't take long for Lin Xian to find several books on sports and football, but most of them were news and information, and there was no information about the 2022 Qatar World Cup.

“I can’t find it at all…”

I searched for a long time, even flipping through history books, but trying to find a record of a football match hundreds of years ago was like looking for a needle in a haystack.

"Ok?"

Suddenly, the name of a book on the bookshelf caught Lin Xian's attention——

Interesting Football Knowledge 7: The History of the World Cup

Lin Xian took out the book.

This is a children's book that uses easy-to-understand language and pictures to introduce the World Cup sport.

Turning to the end, there is an appendix table of "List of World Cup Champions":
"It's really like there's no way out, but it's easy to get it."

This list of champions is in reverse order.

Lin Xian flipped back to the last page and quickly found the location of the 2022 Qatar World Cup.

Just a short sentence -

【Argentina defeated France in a penalty shootout and won the championship! 】

"Penalty shootout? What does that mean?"

Lin Xian doesn’t understand football, so he doesn’t know what the penalty shootout in this sentence refers to, but Argentina is the clear winner:

"Since Argentina is the final champion...it goes without saying that Argentina will win the semi-final against Croatia."

After closing the book, Lin Xian put the children's book back into the bookshelf.

I looked up at the clock on the wall and it showed 00:42.

boom! ! ! ! !
boom! ! ! ! !
boom! ! ! ! !
The familiar white light arrived on time, burning everything in the world.

……

……

hum...

Lin Xian opened his eyes.

There was a faint sound of TV coming from outside the bedroom door, and changing lights flickering in the crack of the door. It seemed that Gao Yang was still watching TV in the living room.

Lin Xian rubbed his eyes, sat up from the bed, put on thick pajamas, and opened the bedroom door.

"How's it going? Did you find it?"

Gao Yang raised his head from the coffee table.

It was filled with beer, duck food, fried chicken and other takeout items.

"It should be... Argentina that won." Lin Xian said with a yawn.

"Don't be! What's the score?"

"I don't know. I just know that the final was between Argentina and France, and Argentina won the World Cup."

Ok……

Gao Yang closed his eyes and thought for a while:
"Row."

He stood up, picked up the coat on the sofa and put it on:

"I'll go downstairs and buy some more lottery tickets."

"Didn't you already bet on Argentina to win?"

"I only bought 100! You dreamed that Argentina won, so I have to buy more?"

"Where's the small gambling you promised to do to cheer yourself up?"

"Give it a try! The bicycle turns into a motorcycle!"

Gao Yang zipped up his jacket, unlocked the door, and walked outside.

"Hey! Where are you going to buy it so late? Isn't the lottery store closed?"

Lin Xian called out to Gao Yang.

"Lottery shops must have stopped selling tickets long ago. But some owners will print more tickets in advance and keep them for sale when the tournament starts. Some people specialize in this kind of business and print a lot of tickets in advance, and then sell them to you at a higher price when the tournament is about to start."

"Don't buy too much. It may not be reliable. Take it easy."

"I know, I know!"

boom!
The door slammed shut.

……

Not long after, Gao Yang, panting, pushed open the door with a stack of lottery tickets in his hand:
"5000 yuan! A month's salary is all in! If I win, I'll get a young model from the club. If I lose, I'll go to work in the adult entertainment industry!"

Lin Xian laughed helplessly:
"You've evolved too quickly from gambling for fun to taking a gamble and then to all-in, haven't you?"

Gao Yang sat down and turned on the TV with the remote control:
"Come on, young model! Messi is counting on you!"

(End of this chapter)